Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    140 ARATUS [Solensis : PHENOMENA, Grace], cum Scholiis, recognovit IMMANUEL BEKKERUS, 8vo. Af. el., 3s Berolint, 1828 One of the best editions of St. Paul’s poet. The astronomical system it describes is founded on that of Eudoxus of - Cnidus. ‘Tov yap cat yévos eiwev’ will be found at the beginning of the fifth line. 141 ARBON (J. G.) VERHANDELING over de BINOMIAAL COKFFICIENTEN, benevens eene beknopte theorie der getallen-reeksen naar de Binomiaalwet geordend, roy. 4to. sewn, 2s 6d Rotterdam, 1844 142 ARBUTHNOT (Ff. F.) The MysTrEnriges of CHRONOLOGY, with PROPOSAL of a NEW ENGLISH ERA, to be called the Victorian, 8vo. buckram, 3s (p. 6s nett) 1900 IN XVITH CENTURY BINDING: 143 ARCHIMEDIS Orera, que quidam extant, OMNIA, NUNC PRIMUM et Greece et Latiné in lucem edita. Adiecta quoque sunt Eurocit Ascalonitee in eosdem Archimedis Libros COMMENTARIA, item GRACE et LATINE, nunquam antea excusa [ex recensione TH. GECHAUFF VENATORIT]; with numerous diagrams, 4 parts in 1 vol. folio, CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN CALF EXTRA, /inely tooled corners and centre-pieces, with the arms of the family of DU PRE DE Svt.-MAUR tnlaid in morocco in centre, with silken ties (some ll. water-stained, the joints neatly mended, and binding somewhat rubbed, otherwise a SOUND COPY IN GOOD PRESERVATION), with old armorial bookplate of THOMAS DU FOSSE on reverse of title, £4. 1ds Basilew, Jo. Hervagius, 1544 THE FIRST EDITION Of Archimedes’s works. { 144 —-—— ANOTHER Copy, large sound copy in new hf. vellum antique, £3. 3s 145 — OPERA que extant, Grece et Latine, novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata per DAVIDEM RIVALTUM; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, folio, sound clean copy in old calf (back slightly damaged), £1. 5s Parisiis, 1615 THE SECOND EDITION OF ARCHIMEDES, rare and yaluable for the numerous woodcuts. The above copy contains 549 numbered pp., whereas Graesse only mentions 548. OPERA; APOLLONIL PERGA&I Conicorum Jib. IV; THropostr Spherica: Methodo nova illustrata, et succinet? demonstrata per Is. BARROW [sacerdotem], Exprofessorem Lucasianum : Cantab. ; with numerous plates, cr. 4to. old calf, 13s 6d Londini, 1675 147 ——— ——— ANOTHER Copy, old calf ( fine tall copy), with auto. of William Molyneux (1656-98, philosopher) on title, and bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 17s 6d ‘L’Archiméde du D. Barrow est un excellent ouvrage ; il est surtout propre & ceux de nos géometres modernes, qui voudroient connoitre la méthode ancienne, parce qu'elle y est réduite sous une forme plus abrégée, sans que l’esprit en soit altéré.’—Montucla. F 148 ———- MONUMENTA omnia MATHEMATICA que extant, ex traditione FRANCISCI MAUROLICTI, Abbatis 8. Marize a Partu; with numerous diagrams, folio, sound tall copy (? LARGE PAPER), in old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 15s Panormi, 1685 This copy belonged to HumpHREY Dirron, Mathematician (1675-1715), and has his auto. and MS. references on title. 149 ——— OPERA que supersunt OMNIA, GRAECE, cum EuToct Ascolonita COMMENTARIIS, ex recen- sione JOSEPHI T'ORELLI, cum NOVA VERSIONE LATINA, accedunt Lectiones Varr. ex Codd. Mediceo et Parisiensibus; with front. on copper by BURGUERS, bust portrait, and numerous diagrams, folio, LARGE PAPER ; old calf gilt, newly rebacked, £1. 17s 6d Oxonii, e Typogr. Clarendontano, 1792 ‘The most complete and magnificent edition of this author’s works.’—-Lowndes. It was printed under the superin- tendence of ABRAHAM ROBERTSON, F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy, and contains a commentary on the tract relating to floating bodies by him, and a Life of Torelli, by Sibiliati. 150 ——— (EUVRES, traduites littéralement, avec un Commentaire par FRANCOIS PEYRARD, suivies d’un Mémoire du Traducteur, sur un nouveau Miroir Ardent, et @un autre Mémoire sur ]’Arith- métique des Grecs, par JEAN JOSEPH DELAMBRE; with bust-portrait, 3 folding plates, and numerous diagrams, thick 4to. sewn, uncut, 17s 6a 1807 * C’est la seule édition compléte qui existe en francais des ceuvres du plus grand géometre de lantiquité.’ It is much valued for the essays by Delambre and the Translator contained in it. 150*——— Woks, ed. in Modern Notation, with Introductory Chapters, by T. L. HEATH, large 8vo. (pp. 514), el. 8s 6d (p. 15s) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1897 151 ———, The ARENARIUS of, trans., with Notes and Illustrations [by GEORGE ANDERSON, Wadham Coll.], with the Dissertation of CHRISTOPHER CLAVIUS, post 8vo. sewn, 3s 6d 1784 ‘The translation is extremely well performed ’—Rose ; with notes and illustrations ‘of considerable merit’ (D.N.D.). 152 ——— DE US QU# VEHUNTUR IN Aqua Libri II, 3 FrEDERICO COMMANDINO in pristinum nitorem restituti, et Commentariis illustrati; with diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn (title and 2 Ul. very slightly defective) ; rare, 8s 6d Bononte, 1565 ‘Jusqu’a présent la meilleure édition.—Montucla. ‘Ses traductions des mathématiciens anciens ont contribué aux progres de cette science, et sont la source od les traducteurs et commentateurs postérieurs ont presque tous puisé.’— Biogr. Gén. 153 ARGELANWDER (Friedrich Wilhelm August) De STELLA 3 LYRAE VARIABILI DIsQUISITIO, Ato. (pp. 21), Af. bound, WITH AUTHOR’S INSOR., 5s Bonne, 1844 The first thorough investigation of the variability of B Lyre, one of the nost interesting stars having variable brightness. — 154 ARISTARCHUS Samius : De MAGNITUDINIBUS et DISTANTUS SOLIS et LUN4 Liber, nune primum GRACE editus cum FrED. COMMANDINI VERSIONE LATINA, Notisque illius et Editoris : Pappr ALEXANDRINI IL Libri MATHEMATICA COLLECTIONIS, Fragmentum, Latinum fecit, Notisque illustravit Jou. WALLIS, 8.T.D.; with folding plates, 8vo. boards (rare), 15s Oxonia, 1688 Aristarchus of Samos anticipated the Copernican system by asserting that the sun was the centre of the universe. In the above work he shows the method of estimating the relative distances of the sun and moon from the earth by the angle formed by the two bodies at the observer’s eye at that moment when the moon is exactly half-luminous. 155 ARISTOTELES: MerreoroLocica [zncipit:] Habes solertissime lector in hoe codice libros Metheoror. Aristotelis Stragirite [sic] peripatheticor. principis efi COMENTARLIS fidelissimi exposi- toris GAIETANI DE THIENIS nouiter ipressos : ac médis erroribusq. purgatos. TRACTATUM de REACTIONE. Et TrRAcTATU de INTENSIONE et REMISSIONE eiusdem Gaietani. (QUESTIONES per- spicacissimi philosophi THIMONIS super quattuor libros metheoror.; with diagrams, folio, gothtc letter; old vellum (binding damaged, leaf Az missing, last 1. defective, and with a few others mended, and title wormed), £1. 5s s.l. a. aut t. n. [e. 1505] An early and handsomely printed edition of the work which created meteorology as a science. “~. , nt a. 146
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